Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School, and Ravi Ramamurti, University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, discuss their new book, REVERSE INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE, on how India can be the blueprint for healthcare in the US. 

Instead of imagining ourselves in another person’s position, we need to actually get their perspective, according to a recent study (pdf) in the Journal of Personality and Psychology. Researchers from the University of Chicago and Northeastern University in the US and Ben Gurion University in Israel conducted 25 different experiments with strangers, friends, couples, and spouses to assess the […]

Beyond the voices of roommates just a few feet away and fellow classmates down the hall, students at Northeastern University are growing accustomed to hearing the sound of Alexa in their college dormitories.

“We’re in a new world now,” said Aziza Ahmed, a law professor at Northeastern University who writes about reproductive rights law. “The majority of American women are on some form of contraception. We take it for granted that we can control when and how we want to reproduce. We see pregnancy as within the realm that […]

So does Sarah J. Jackson, a Northeastern University associate professor of communications who studies hashtag activism online. Though she says every #MeToo story deserves to be heard, she thinks this episode may prove to be a turning point in how they are evaluated.

An MIT-trained political scientist who is now at the Boston Area Research Initiative (“an interuniversity research partnership of Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston”) surveyed MBTA riders and used their CharlieCard numbers to get data for the on-time performance of the trains they had ridden. 

Here are six insights from the op-ed, written by Timothy Hoff, PhD, professor of management, healthcare systems and health policy at Boston-based Northeastern University.

Carlson asked Professor Hemanth Gundavaram of Northeastern University what an ICE-less America would mean, and who would arrest thousands of criminal illegal immigrants who committed crimes other than crossing the border unlawfully.

A team of researchers at Northeastern University have taken on the task of predicting debate “winners” by deconstructing their arguments, hoping to encourage more meaningful meetings. The researchers aren’t focused on style but content — they’re concern isn’t with fancy rhetoric or theatrics but with sound reasoning. It’s an idealized outlook of debates but one they […]

Some universities spoke out against the ruling on Tuesday. “Northeastern University and its leaders remain opposed to the travel ban,” the Boston-based university said in a statement on its website, pointing to the letter its president wrote when the first ban was announced. 

Author and Northeastern University neuroscience and psychology professor Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett argues in her book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain that emotion is a learned concept, shaped by the society in which one’s mind develops. When a child is born, it experiences only sensations that result in pleasure or pain. As […]

The Small Arms Survey count is significantly higher than one produced by the National Firearms Survey, a joint project of Harvard and Northeastern University, which in 2015 estimated that American civilians owned 265 million guns. Its authors calculated that the nation’s firearms stockpile had increased by only about 70 million guns since 1994, the last time […]